So along with Edward Snowden reporting that the U.S. has been spying on its allies, the latest news from the Redmond, WA, technology giant implies that any calls made on Skype are subject to the same snooping by the NSA as regular phone calls. In a blog post today, Microsoft revealed that they “assume that all calls, whether over the Internet or by fixed line or mobile phone, will offer similar levels of privacy and security.” In an era when everyone is constantly connected, it’s amazing that the NSA can collect, let alone go through, all of the content that Snowden alleged.
Snowden also revealed that the NSA catches email in its dragnet of communication data known as PRISM. Microsoft stands accused of giving up information not only from Skype – a voice over IP service it purchased in 2011 for $8.5 billion – but also Outlook.com, known in a past life as Hotmail.
Via Mashable
